On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:44:56 +1000, John_H blathered on in :
> jackbadger56 wrote:
>
>>http://www.drive.com.au/Editorial/ArticleDetail.aspx?
ArticleID=48558&vf=12
>>
>>Regarding the comment "Up until recently diesel engines were the
>>preserve of European im****ts, but in the past 18 months Holden, Ford and
>>Mazda have all launched diesel-powered mid-sized sedans.".........had no
>>idea there was a mid-size Holden diesel. What is it? Surely not the
>>Astra?
>
> Typical comment you'd expect from a motoring journo at full wank!
>
> Oldest diesel car I can ever recall seeing (even before a diesel
> Mercedes) was an early ninety fifties (or possibly late forties) Humber
> Super Snipe. Pretty sure the Perkins diesel (which probably set back
> the genre by at least fifty years) was stock.
>
> Owner claimed it would cruise at 90mph 30mpg, but didn't say for how
> long.
Hmmm - owner could presumably smell smoke from a fire in Hanoi - From
Hobart?
>
> IIRC Land Rover also offered a diesel (Perkins probably) around the same
> era. Mazda have had diesel sedans for yonks (thirty something years at
> a guess)... which didn't do much for the genre either. :)
Toyota has a diesel version of every one of their cars that I've read the
workshop and/or operator manuals for. Basically everything they ever sold
here had a diesel version somewhere or other.
Speaking of POS diesels, I recall a Land Rover that had an absolute ****
of a 'diesel' that had the fuel injected *outside* of the intake valves.
It managed to drag some of the spray in with the air, and indeed the
thing was cable of causing some movement of the vehicle. Some.
I wonder which bunch of imbeciles were responsible for that?
--
Toby
